Android System Webview Latest Version Download APK for Android

November 19, 2017 6:48 pm

Android Webview System is a system component application powered by Google Chrome that allows Android apps to display web content. It is an inbuilt application for most of the Android operating devices and is pre-installed.In other words, Android Webview System allows 3rd party apps to show content in-app browser or in the in-app screen that pulls from the web.Without this application, most of the apps cannot let the user utilize the online applications and features provided by those apps.

According to Google, “Android System Webview” is a view that displays web pages. This class is the basis upon which you can roll your own web browser or simply display some online content within your Activity. It uses the WebKit rendering engine to display web pages and includes methods to navigate forward and backward through a history, zoom in and out, and perform text searches and more.

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About the Android System Webview

This application can seem to be of no use to the user directly but without this application, any other application cannot display web content from the internet. Almost every app which is installed on any Android device utilizes Android System Webview to get the web content. It is suggested to keep this application always up to date for the surety of latest security updates and bug. Also Download HTTP Injector APK

We can say that Android Webview acts as a mediator between a 3rd party app and the user to get the information on the internet. To understand even better, Android Webview of the Facebook app allows the user to open any link to a 3rd party webpage in the application itself. Android Webview allows the Facebook app to display the web content of the 3rd party webpage within the app without leaving the app.

Android System Webview has been available since the KitKat update of Android and the apps which takes advantage of it can use it to open web pages in themselves. With the Lollipop update of Android, Google detached Android Webview from the core OS and made it as a stand-alone system component that can be updated as Google sees fit. It allows Google to push security fixes and other enhancements without the need to push an entire system update.

Applications and uses of “Android System Webview”

Android Webview is a client side that displays web pages and hence can be used alone. These class allows to display web pages on the Android app but has some limitations to it. Is used alone, it does support uploading images and other media from an external storage. Therefore it is advised to use both Webview and Web Chrome client for building application for a blog or a website.

Some application requires webview for functions like approving logins from Facebook and Google+. This allows those applications to keep up with Chrome and provide a better browsing experience. Do tell us your experience with Android System Webview in the comment section below and give other users cool tips.